Variations

The helix piercing can be installed anywhere on the ear edge, starting directly from the spot above the earlobe to above round the ear-round.

The anti-helix piercing is located at the inner edge of the ear, where the ear is adherent to the head, where it is engraved horizontally through the ear edge.

If two opposing helix piercings connected with a barbell, one speaks of an industrial or scaffold piercing. Frequently, a helix piercing are combined with an anti-helix piercing.

At a deeper set Helix Piercing the upper ear edge, it is an outer conch piercing. Strictly speaking, this is no special form of the helix piercings, but a special positioning of the conch piercings. This in turn is often confused with the turn-helix piercing.